| Oct 15, 2024 | Our paper Mix Data or Merge Models? Optimizing for Diverse Multi-Task Learning is available on Arxiv now. |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Our Elo Uncovered paper is accepted to Neurips!  |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Two papers accepted to EMNLP main track: Multilingual Prism and LLM see, LLM do!  |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Our paper Diversify and Conquer: Diversity-Centric Data Selection with Iterative Refinement is available on Arxiv now. |
| Aug 24, 2024 | Our paper To Code, or Not To Code? Exploring Impact of Code in Pre-training is available on Arxiv now. |
| Aug 15, 2024 |  Our Aya model paper received the ACL Best Paper Award! |
| Jul 20, 2024 | Our paper LLM See, LLM Do: Guiding Data Generation to Target Non-Differentiable Objectives is available on Arxiv now. |
| Jul 19, 2024 | Our paper The Multilingual Alignment Prism: Aligning Global and Local Preferences to Reduce Harm is available on Arxiv now. |
| Jul 7, 2024 | Three papers accepted to ACL main track: Aya Model, Aya Dataset, and RLOO!  |
| May 31, 2024 | Our paper Aya 23: Open Weight Releases to Further Multilingual Progress is available on Arxiv now. |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Our paper Back to Basics: Revisiting REINFORCE Style Optimization for Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs is available on Arxiv now. |
| Feb 13, 2024 | We release Aya 101  a massively multilingual dataset and language model. For more details checkout our Data and Model paper. |
| Nov 5, 2023 | Our paper Elo Uncovered: Robustness and Best Practices in Language Model Evaluation is accepted to GEM Workshop at EMNLP 2023! |
| Nov 1, 2023 | Thrilled to be nominated for Top 5 AI Researcher in the company of some outstanding women  |
| Oct 22, 2023 | Our paper Which Prompts Make The Difference? Data Prioritization For Efficient Human LLM Evaluation is available on arxiv now! |
| Oct 20, 2023 | During the month of September and October, I had the opportunity to give several talks. You can check them out here  |
| Sep 11, 2023 | Our paper When Less is More: Investigating Data Pruning for Pretraining LLMs at Scale is accepted to Attributing Model Behavior at Scale workshop at Neurips! |
| Jan 20, 2023 | I’m excited to announce that I have joined Sara Hooker’s team at Cohere For AI as a Senior Research Scientist  |
| Jan 12, 2023 | InPars-v2 is SoTA on the BEIR Leaderboard in zero-shot Information Retrieval  |
| Jan 4, 2023 | Our paper InPars-v2: Large Language Models as Efficient Dataset Generators for Information Retrieval is available on arxiv now. |
| Dec 12, 2022 | Our paper In Defense of Cross-Encoders for Zero-Shot Retrieval is available on arxiv now. |
| Feb 22, 2022 | Selected as an ICLR Highlighted Reviewer. |
| Feb 10, 2022 | Our paper InPars: Data Augmentation for Information Retrieval using Large Language Models got accepted at SIGIR. |
| Jan 1, 2022 | Our paper mMARCO: A Multilingual Version of the MS MARCO Passage Ranking Dataset is available on arxiv now. |
| Nov 10, 2020 | I successfully defended my PhD dissertation! Check out my book here  |
| May 20, 2020 | Our paper The Unreasonable Volatility of Neural Machine Translation Models got accepted at WNGT. It will be presented at ACL. |
| Oct 15, 2019 | Joined Zeta Alpha Vector as NLP/ML research engineer. |
| Aug 13, 2018 | Our paper Back-Translation Sampling by Targeting Difficult Words in Neural Machine Translation got accepted at EMNLP. |
| May 28, 2018 | I did an internship at eBay CoreAI Machine Translation team during the summer. |
| Apr 20, 2018 | I got invited to attend Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School in Toronto, Canada. |
| Jan 30, 2018 | Our paper Examining the Tip of the Iceberg: A Data Set for Idiom Translation got accepted at LREC. |
| May 30, 2017 | Our paper Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation got accepted at ACL. |
| May 30, 2017 | Our paper Learning Topic-Sensitive Word Representations got accepted at ACL. |
| Oct 22, 2015 | I participated in Google’s NLP PhD Summit in Zürich, Switzerland. |
| Oct 15, 2014 | I Participated in MT Marathon in Trento, Italy. |